REVIEWS

Can death signify in its singularity or is it always entrenched in a political context? Toby Bull examines Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winning film I, Daniel Blake in the light of its political setting and contrasts Blake’s death with Gianfranco Rosi’s Gold Bear winning Fire at Sea, a documentary about the mass death of European migrant.

Have we stopped to be and given over our lives to the digital ether of the internet? Writer Nelly Crane explores Werner Herzog's latest documentary Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, reflecting on our seemingly limitless love for the machines we have created.

When do we reach the limits of representability, freedom and language? Christine Jakobson turns to László Nemes’ debut film Son of Saul, which won him the Grand Prix at Cannes and best foreign language film at the Oscars, challenging questions concerning identity, while confronting the liminality between possibility and impossibility, individuality and universality.

What is the world's condition and what is our place in it? Film critic Emilija Talijan turns towards Wim Wender's biographical documentary on Sebastião Salgado, Salt of the Earth, looking at the tension between photography and documentary, beauty and reality and the individual and the universal.

What is it that makes Xavier Dolan's Mommy, the latest work of one of cinema's youngest and most prolific directors, a contemporary masterpiece? Film critic Emilija Talijan explores how Dolan creates a film that lives and breathes, remembers and foreshadows and leaves you with an unforgettable experience.